Re: [PATCH v6 08/34] mm: Provide a helper to drop a pin/ref on a page

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 11:08:59PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Provide a helper in the get_user_pages code to drop a pin or a ref on a
> > page based on being given FOLL_GET or FOLL_PIN in its flags argument or do
> > nothing if neither is set.
> 
> Please don't add new page based helpers.

Yes, I know, but all of the callers still use pages, not folios.

David




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